On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 02:40:52PM +0100, Stroller wrote: > > On 17 Sep 2008, at 23:21, David Creelman wrote: >> ... >> `<snip> >> Can someone point out where I could look to find out how to get this >> to work? >> >> I'm using mplayer/encoder built from svn, running on Debian. > > Hi there, > > I haven't read your output because there's too much of it. Yes, in retrospect that was a bit silly of me. > > You should use this command: > mplayer -really-quiet -ao null -vo null -frames 0 -identify > movie1.amv Okay, thanks. That gives me back something useful. Would it be asking too much for help in sorting out how to turn this into a set of parameters for mencoder to produce files playable on this device? D_VIDEO_ID=0 [avi @ 0x9c44c90]scale/rate is 0/0 which is invalid. (This file has been generat ed by broken software.) [avi @ 0x9c44c90]scale/rate is 0/0 which is invalid. (This file has been generat ed by broken software.) ID_VIDEO_ID=0 ID_AUDIO_ID=1 ID_FILENAME=movie1.amv ID_DEMUXER=lavf ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=AMVV ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=0 ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=160 ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=120 ID_VIDEO_FPS=16.000 ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000 ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=AMVA ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=352800 ID_AUDIO_RATE=22050 ID_AUDIO_NCH=1 ID_LENGTH=304.05 ID_SEEKABLE=1 ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffamv ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=352800 ID_AUDIO_RATE=22050 ID_AUDIO_NCH=1 ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffadpcmimaamv > > I don't think there's an automated way to tell mplayer to use the same > format as an existing file - you just have to manually work out the > parameters. Okay, makes sense I guess. > > Stroller.
